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01 Apr 2015 9:56:53am

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One has to consider the biochemical, personality and genetic factors that are to play here as well. It that there is the implication here that people who suffer with depression need to buck up and be less introverted and selfish - I may be taking your meaning wrong though.

People have and will suffer occasions or an upbringing comprising of great torment, or situations in life where one has suffered or witnessed great cruelty or pain...But what one needs to understand is that we all have different levels of resilience, varied and interacting biochemical factors that may predispose one to fall into a depressive episode or another mental illness.

It is not just 'mind over matter'. Awareness and comprehension of the flaws in ones mode of thinking seldom, if at all brings automatic relief and/or being reunited with the psychiatric 'normal' and pervasive thought patterns.

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